I can never work out the amount of coffee to put in the French press so that the plunger still goes down all the way and the coffee is a good strength. So if you go with a 7g scoop per cup in a (say) 8 cup press, then there is more coffee grounds than there is space for the plunger to go down all the way. Any tips?

Thanks! Registered over there, and there does seem plenty of jobs going.

From the commentary on the news today, it seems that people inadvertently held another card (maybe in a wallet) too close to the reader whilst trying to use Chip and Pin with another card.

I spent a year working on a project in Go, so got pretty used to the language. One thing I did wonder though was how would it fare on very large systems; how could Go hook up to work like MPI across clusters of computers?

Having watched the video my first thoughts were why can't (for eg) the child's grandma reply using her email client. Why does grandma have to login to the website?

I agree, I was about to grab this for my kid, but getting the dozen or so friends and relatives to create accounts isn't worth it. Very nice looking, but should have the option of just using an email whitelist to send. Then include a one time use reply link in each email so the recipient can reply without having an account.

I presume one reason (as suggested in the video) is that Maily wants to promote "kid-friendly" email replies. I imagine kids (particularly the very young) would find it more fun to receive a visual reply than a standard email reply.

An account is still a barrier. They could create a "click to read and respond" link that contains an access token.

Really interesting talk. TED do some great talks in general imo.

This may be a significant reason as to why people won't switch. Why go to the hastle of moving data just to use another service?

Plus, with referrals in Dropbox, the free space difference becomes negligible.

Thirded. They is such a simple way to visualise this.

If you wish for some additional reinforcement on interpolation and splines, the presentation on this by Squirrel Eiserloh for GDC is fantastic.

http://www.essentialmath.com/tutorial.htm

Tried the "Black and White Squares" one. Was pretty fun and definitely suitable for 'young folders'!

git-add -p is new to me, but looks like something I'd wish I'd known about for a long while. The number of times I end up copying changes (like a new function) into some temp file while I commit is more than I'd care to admit.

Another good post that talks about git add -p is Ryan Tomayko's The Thing About Git[1].

[1]: http://tomayko.com/writings/the-thing-about-git

You can also git-add -i to go through the staging area & stage/unstage individual patches.

Or use git citool or an emacs mode like egg or magit (other editors have similar) that let you conveniently stage by hunk or line.

you can use git gui (included) for a mouse-friendly way of doing this.

Since I first tried the Git GUI I can't see myself using Git Bash ever again (and this article reminds me of why).

If you are on a mac, Gitx works nicely too. You can see each file, and state "hunks" as you go.